Title: Switching of Redox Levels Leads to High Reductive Stability in Water-in-Salt ElectrolytesAuthors: Feng Wang, Yan Sun, and Jun Cheng*Abstract: Developing nonflammable electrolytes with wide electrochemical windows is of great importance for energy storage devices. Water-in-salt electrolytes (WiSE) have attracted great interests due to their widely opened electrochemical windows and high s...

Title: A van der Waals heterojunction strategy to fabricate layer-by-layer single-molecule switchAuthors: Yu-Ling Zou, Qing-Man Liang, Taige Lu, Yao-Guang Li, Shiqiang Zhao, Jian Gao, Zi-Xian Yang, Anni Feng, Jia Shi, Wenjing Hong, Zhong-Qun Tian, Yang Yang*Abstract: Single-molecule electronics offer a unique strategy for the miniaturization of electronic devices. However, the existing experime...

Title: A new film-forming electrolyte additive in enhancing the interface of layered cathode and cycling life of sodium ion batteriesAuthors: Peng Dai, Chen-Guang Shi, Zheng Huang, Xiao-Hong Wu, Ya-Ping Deng*, Jie Fu, Yuxiang Xie, Jingjing Fan, Shouyu Shen, Chong-Heng Shen, Yuhao Hong, Guang Li, Yanfen Wen, Zhongwei Chen*, Ling Huang*, Shi-Gang Sun*Abstract: Sodium layered oxides have been wide...

Title: Dynamically interfacial pH-buffering effect enabled by N-methylimidazole molecules as spontaneous proton pumps toward highly reversible zinc metal anodesAuthors: Minghao Zhang, Haiming Hua, Pengpeng Dai, Zheng He, Lianhuan Han, Peiwen Tang, Jin Yang, Pengxiang Lin, Yufei Zhang, Dongping Zhan, Jianken Chen, Yu Qiao, Cheng Chao Li*, Jinbao Zhao*, Yang Yang*Abstract: Aqueous zinc metal batt...

Title: Synthesis and Interlayer Assembly of a Graphenic Bowl with Peripheral Selenium AnnulationAuthors: Zhen-Lin Qiu, Yang Cheng, Qi Zeng, Qiong Wu, Xin-Jing Zhao, Rong-Jie Xie, LiuBin Feng, Kaihui Liu*, and Yuan-Zhi Tan*Abstract: Pentagonal cyclization at the bay positions of armchair-edged graphenic cores can build molecular bowls without the destruction of hexagonal lattices. However, this ...

Title: Superfast Mass Transport of Na/K Via Mesochannels for Dendrite-Free Metal BatteriesAuthors: Weibin Ye, Xin Li, Bowen Zhang, Weicheng Liu, Yong Cheng, Xinhang Fan, Hehe Zhang, Yuanpeng Liu, Quanfeng Dong*, Ming-Sheng Wang*Abstract: Fast ion diffusion in anode hosts enabling uniform distribution of Li/Na/K is essential for achieving dendrite-free alkali metal batteries. Common strategies, ...

Title: Catalytic Asymmetric Deoxygenative Cyclopropanation Reactions by a Chiral Salen-Mo CatalystAuthors: Li-Ya Cao, Jia-Le Wang, Kai Wang, Jiang-Bin Wu, De-Ku Wang, Jia-Min Peng, Jin Bai, and Chun-Xiang Zhuo*Abstract: The catalytic asymmetric cyclopropanation reaction of alkenes with diazo compounds is a direct and powerful method to construct chiral cyclopropanes that are essential to drug d...

Title: Tracking the Delocalized Proton in Concerted Proton Transfer in Bulk WaterAuthors: Shengheng Yan, Binju Wang*, and Hai Lin*Abstract: A solvated proton in water is often characterized as a charge or structural defect, and it is important to track its evolution on-the-fly in certain dynamics simulations. Previously, we introduced the proton indicator, a pseudo-atom, whose position approxim...

Title: Disulfide-Directed Multicyclic Peptide Libraries for the Discovery of Peptide Ligands and DrugsAuthors: Shuaimin Lu, Shihui Fan, Shuling Xiao, Jinjing Li, Shilong Zhang, Yapei Wu, Chuilian Kong, Jie Zhuang, Hongtan Liu, Yibing Zhao, and Chuanliu Wu*Abstract: Multicyclic peptides with stable 3D structures are a kind of novel and promising peptide formats for drug design and discovery as t...

Title: Understanding the Key Roles of pH Buffer in Accelerating Lignin Degradation by Lignin PeroxidaseAuthors: Wenhan Fang, Shishi Feng, Zhihui Jiang, Wanzhen Liang, Pengfei Li*, and Binju Wang*Abstract: pH buffer plays versatile roles in both biology and chemistry. In this study, we unravel the critical role of pH buffer in accelerating degradation of the lignin substrate in lignin peroxidase...